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Paula Boyd is the author of the award-winning Jolene Jackson Mystery Series. The books in order are: Hot Enough to Kill, Dead Man Falls, Turkey Ranch Road Rage, and the new book coming soon...Killer Moves.

Thank you to everyone who entered! This was such fun and I am really excited about working each of your names into the book. As it turns out, it is going to be really easy in some ways because serendipitously there are some "real" connections that are just amazing! I'll share more about that later and post a few sneak peeks here when each person is written in.

So, here are the final winners! I wound up drawing four because I didn't think I was going to hear back from a couple of people. It all worked out!

Paula Ruth Hall

Tina Hull

Mark Patterson

Dr. Deb Luchsinger

Hall and Hull--what are the odds? And a Paula too! I have some really cool ideas how to work in Mark Patterson and Dr. Deb Luchsinger as sort of their "real" selves because they just "fit" the story. Who would have guessed!

Would you like your name to be a character in the 4th Jolene Jackson Mystery, Killer Moves? Well, the last drawing will be August 1, so be sure you have signed up. The winners so far are: Stan Sewell and Paula Hall.

Paula's in for sure, but I haven't heard back from Stan yet. That means there could be two chances to win, so hop over to the website and enter your name and email address in the form on the right. http://paulaboyd.com.

By the way, I've had a lot of people ask about an audio book--specifically me reading the stories. Apparently, there's something about the way I say things that somehow resembles Jolene and/or makes it funnier. I totally don't get it, because I am NOTHING like her at all. Nevertheless, I'm putting together an audio clip of a sample chapter of Hot Enough to Kill and will post it on the site soon. Listen at your own risk!

Share this with friends! Who knows who'll wind up as "characters"!

More soon!

Paula

PS: A couple of people have told me they've had a glitch with the sign-up form, but my tests work okay, so not sure what's going on. Still, they are on the list, so we are good to go!

How would you like YOUR NAME to be included as a character in Killer Moves? How cool would that be???

Well, not so fast... You have read the other three books, right? Here's the catch--no guarantees on who, what or how--yeah, it might not be pretty.... It will, however, be fun!

So, here's what you do:

Simply sign up for updates in the form on in the website sidebar and and you're automatically entered! THREE winners will be selected at random with a little drawing software program I have and will be notified by email. Once you've officially agreed to be a part of this adventure, I'll make the announcement here.

Drawings will be held June 30, July 15 and August 1.

Come on, it will be fun! And you'll be a true "character" forever!

Enter your name and email address in the sign-up form on the right side of the website and you're in!

Paula

PS: If you haven't read the books, click on the links and read a sample chapter so you know what you're getting into!

These books have all been revised and updated from their original print publications and are now only available as ebooks.

Dead Man Falls and Turkey Ranch Road Rage will soon be available on Barnes & Noble, Apple and other ebook sites. Will post on update with links as soon as they are available.

These are fast fun reads that are perfect for a few laughs on a rainy day, at the beach and anywhere else. And, after reading about what Jolene has to put up with, you'll feel really good about your own life!

Keep laughing!

Paula

PS: My self-help book, Living the Life You Love by Paula Renaye, just won the Independent Publishers Book Awards GOLD IPPY! Details will be posted soon on my other blog, ToughLoveTalk.com.

Hot Enough to Killwas the most downloaded ebook in the entire Kindle Free Store store on Wednesday, November 28, 2012!

Want numbers? 27,500 downloads! I am thrilled beyond words! Don't know how it happened, but thank you to everyone who downloaded it and who have written to say they loved it--and laughed a lot!

As promised in my last post, I am at the beach! I admit I've taken the last two days to do pretty much NOTHING and it has been great! Oh, yes, Jolene and Lucille are busy behind the scenes telling me what to do even when I'm at the beach. And yesterday, I couldn't help but think about Jolene and her hair curling and frizzing in the humidity, because, well, yes, mine was!

The title of this post isn't just referring to the book, however. Things are really moving in my life too on just about every level and it is a crazy-busy and fabulously fun time!

As you may know I also write self-help books, and my new Living the Life You Love: The No-Nonsense Guide to Total Transformation is really taking off! I'm on tour now, but there is a beach condo with my name on it where I can finish the next Jolene book. Jolene and Lucille are really clambering to get out and tell me what's been going on while I've been busy elsewhere, so I am going to have to let them speak. And, I miss them!

Load your Kindle up with all three Jolene Jackson Mysteries and have some laughs with Jolene, Lucille, Leroy, Bony Butt and the rest of the characters in Kickapoo, Texas. Sure, things might go bad for Jolene--they always do when she gets dragged back to her old hometown--but you'll enjoy the ride.

Speaking of which, you might want to drink and eat cautiously while reading, however. I've had a few complaints about trying to swallow and running up on an unexpected funny--specifically, some incidents involving liquid and noses and food spewing across viewing screens. So, you've been warned!

A few weeks ago, Hot Enough to Kill was featured in an amazon.com Kindle free giveaway and thousands of people took advantage of it, putting Hot at #4 on the Women Sleuths list. It's still only $0.99, so get a copy now!

Hot Enough to Killhas been re-edited, revised and re-eccentricized. Okay, the truth is that I just intended to clean up the original print version before I published it on Kindle--fix a few typos and little things I missed the first time around. However, one thing led to another, and I got a bit carried away. So, if you read the original print version years ago, give the ebook a try. I sure had fun with it!

As you may know, I also write nonfiction, and I've just finished a second book that will be in bookstores in September. It's called, Living the Life You Love--The No-Nonsense Guide to Total Transformation. I'm very excited about that. And now that it is off into the publishing process, I'm catching up with what Jolene and Lucille have been doing, and it's not pretty.

I'd like to tell you that Jolene has matured--and she has, a little--but there just hasn't been a lot of time for introspection lately. I'd also like to tell you that Lucille is now behaving herself and not causing trouble, but, that's just not how things work in Kickapoo, Texas, now is it?

I don't know how things can worse, but somehow they do. This time Jolene gets handed keys to the castle--oh, it sounds really good--but there are alligators in the moat, bats in the belfry and a whole bunch of toxic waste mucking up the Texas Tea.

Keep an eye out for the 4th Jolene Jackson Mystery, Killer Moves! They need to be read in order, so make sure you've caught up with the story!

UPDATE: I didn't get to watch to see how high in the rankings it made it, but I did see Hot listed at#381 in the entire Kindle Store and #20 in Mystery Women Sleuths, sandwiched between several Janet Evanovich novels, which was fun. Thank you! Keep reading and keep laughing!

And yes, Killer Moves is still in the works. Honestly, after reading back through HETK and DMF again, I have to admit that I spent a lot of time shaking my head while I did it--and laughing. Who wrote this stuff!

Okay, I know who, but my alter ego Jolene is, well, a character! If you've read all three of the books so far, here's an excerpt from the beginning of Killer Moves that will tell you where things are headed next.